Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Pope urges courage for Catholics in China, Iraq (AP)
• For many troops, a last Christmas in Iraq (Reuters)
• Iraqi Christians Celebrate in Exile (The Daily Beast)
• Oil exports from Iraq's Kurdish north to resume (AP)
• Iraqi Christians mark somber Christmas in Baghdad (AP)
• Iraqis defy threats to pack massacre church on Xmas (AFP)
• Iraq to activate Kurd foreign oil deals: minister (AFP)
• Iraqi Christians mark safer Christmas in Kurdistan (Reuters)
• Iraqi 'hangs daughter' over Qaeda suicide plot (AFP)

Pope urges courage for Catholics in China, Iraq (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:55 PM PST AP - Iraqi Christians celebrated a somber Christmas in a Baghdad cathedral stained with dried blood, while Pope Benedict XVI exhorted Chinese Catholics to stay loyal despite restrictions on them in a holiday address laced with worry for the world's Christian minorities.

For many troops, a last Christmas in Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 09:36 AM PST Reuters - Colonel Lance Kittleson is looking forward to spending Christmas with his family next year as troops withdraw from Iraq 7-1/2 years after the invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.

Iraqi Christians Celebrate in Exile (The Daily Beast) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:19 AM PST The Daily Beast - After a string of terror attacks and threats—including October’s devastating al Qaeda rampage in Baghdad—Christians in Iraq have fled to the north, or nearby countries. Christmas morning, Nathan Deuel talked to refugees cautiously observing the holy day.

Oil exports from Iraq's Kurdish north to resume (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 08:05 AM PST AP - Iraq's newly appointed oil minister said on Saturday that oil exports from the country's northern self-ruled Kurdish region would soon resume as part of the country's national oil export policy.

Iraqi Christians mark somber Christmas in Baghdad (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:47 AM PST AP - Iraqi Christians celebrated Christmas Mass on Saturday in a Baghdad church that was the scene of a brutal al-Qaida assault, facing stark symbols of the price of faith: photos of dead parishioners in front of the altar and, hanging from the wall, black cassocks representing two slain priests.

Iraqis defy threats to pack massacre church on Xmas (AFP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 07:15 AM PST AFP - Hundreds of Christians packed Baghdad's Our Lady of Salvation church for Christmas on Saturday, defying threats of attacks less than two months after militants massacred worshippers and priests there.

Iraq to activate Kurd foreign oil deals: minister (AFP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 06:55 AM PST AFP - Iraq will recognise contracts which the government of its Kurdish north has signed with foreign oil companies, the country's new oil minister, Abdulkarim al-Luaybi, said on Saturday.

Iraqi Christians mark safer Christmas in Kurdistan (Reuters) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 05:33 AM PST Reuters - Ammar Ablahad fled Baghdad to the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan just last week, determined to celebrate Christmas with his wife and baby without fear of attack.

Iraqi 'hangs daughter' over Qaeda suicide plot (AFP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:40 AM PST AFP - An Iraqi man hanged his 19-year-old daughter after discovering she had joined Al-Qaeda and was preparing to launch a suicide bombing, police said on Saturday.

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